Smiling and waving church members wearing orange safety vests are strategically placed at a certain point on nearby U.S. Highway 41 so that motorists can clearly see the large signs they’re holding that read, “Need Prayer? Turn Here.” The signs direct the drivers to dozens of church volunteers who are waiting patiently to pray with them.

According to EUMC’s drive-thru prayer leader, Pam Sebby, the idea has been quite a hit. “You’d be surprised by the tears of joy from people when they come through, because they know God’s there for them and He is listening to their concerns. It’s really neat,” she told The Christian Post.

The church’s prayer warriors offer services for motorists every Wednesday and the number of those seeking spirituality from their vehicles has only increased. Sebby notes that the dedication and drive of the church’s volunteers fuels those who are seeking prayer as “It is our mission to reach, connect, nurture, disciple and commission ourselves for the Lord,” she enthused. Most of the drivers who pull up for a dose of spirituality are in need of guidance for their heartfelt dilemma, Sebby points out.

There are those who question whether EUMC created the service to increase its membership. John Halley, EUMC’s discipleship director, said that’s not the case. “Our drive-thru prayer is simply a service, not an enticement to join the church that boasts about our 1,100 members…it’s not a church-growth strategy for us, it’s really an outreach to share God’s love with our community,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sebby and her prayer warriors are hopeful that other churches will soon follow their drive-thru prayer blueprint stating, “We hope this spreads throughout the entire United States of America. A lot of churches can do this. Spreading prayer is a great start and is what it’s all about.”

According to Associated Press calculations, Romney managed to convince only 47.2 percent of voters that he was the right man to steer the country through war, recession, fiscal cliffs and debt ceilings. What a fitting end to the political career of a man who basically called 47 percent of the country leeches on the government who expect politicians to buy their votes.

No, not wealthy government leeches, like Goldmann Sachs and other Wall Street bankers who continue to enjoy bonuses while wading waist deep in predatory lending practices that almost caused the economy to collapse. He meant people living in poverty who have the nerve to expect things like, you know, healthcare so they won’t die.

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As previously reported by NewsOne, Romney said that it’s not his job to care about the 47% of Americans who dare to feel entitled to things such as food, housing and healthcare because “those people” are victims who will undoubtedly vote for President Barack Obama:

After sh*t was introduced to fan, Mittens made an appearance on FOX News’ Sean Hannity, admitting that he was “completely wrong” for negatively stereotyping people he wanted to vote for him Americans:

“Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you say something [that] doesn’t come out right,” Romney said. “In this case, I said something that’s just completely wrong.”

“When I become president it will be about helping the 100 percent,” he assured Hannity.

]]>http://newsone.com/2123649/mitt-romney-officially-won-47-percent/feed/20obama-phonekirstenwestsavaliObama phoneTagg Romney: My Father ‘Had No Desire’ To Be POTUShttp://newsone.com/2113223/tagg-romney-my-father-had-no-desire-to-run-for-potus/
http://newsone.com/2113223/tagg-romney-my-father-had-no-desire-to-run-for-potus/#commentsThu, 27 Dec 2012 05:23:02 +0000http://newsone.com/?p=2113223]]>Many people who endorsed President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race did so not simply because they preferred his policies, but because Mitt Romney seemed more interesting in having the job than doing the job, to paraphrase Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrickat the Democratic National Convention.

Well, it seems that we had Mittens all wrong.

According to his son, Tagg Romney, who infamously said that he wanted to take a “swing” at Obama, his father never wanted to be president in the first place:

“If he could have found someone else to take his place … he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention,” Tagg told the Boston Globe in a behind-the-scenes look at the loss of the Romney 2012 campaign.

Despite aggressively running arguably the most costly campaign in American history, Tagg Romney claims that his father “wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life.”

Tagg Romney was a prominent advisor of his dad’s 2012 campaign, and he’d been at his father’s side during his successful run for Massachusetts governor and failed presidential effort in 2008. According to reports, it was Mitt’s poor showing in ’08 that nearly convinced him not to run again.

This is absolutely amazing considering that he found himself on all sides on all issues discussed during the campaign trying to figure out which one would garner him the most votes; in fact, we think the caricature below illustrates exactly how much Mittens wanted to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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In this photo released by the United Nations, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council prior to voting on a resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, at the United Nations headquarters. Rice vetoed the draft resolution that would have condemned “illegal” Israeli settlements and demanded an immediate halt to all settlement building. (AP Photo/The United Nations, John McIlwaine)

On Thursday, well-respected U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (pictured) announced that she is stepping down from her run for secretary of state, according to NBC News.

In a letter to President Barack Obama, Rice voiced concern over an unnecessary and prolonged vetting due to the incessant criticism she experienced over the Benghazi, Libya, incident:

“If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities.

“That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country…. Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time.”

On September 11th, an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi caused the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Initially, Rice said in an interview with “Meet the Press” that the attacks were linked to an American anti-Muslim video that had gone viral:

“What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video.

“Opportunistic extremist elements came to the consulate as this was unfolding. They came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are readily available in post-revolutionary Libya, and it escalated into a much more violent episode.”

While Rice was just reporting on the intelligence she was provided at the time, Republicans — eager to gain an edge during the 2012 presidential election against President Obama — upbraided Rice for misrepresenting the Benghazi incident as a backlash to the video as opposed to a full-on premeditated terrorist attack.

On November 21, Rice would maintain at the United Nations that the information she shared with the public was indeed the intelligence she was provided at the time, “I relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. I made clear that the information was preliminary and that our investigations would give us the definitive answers.”

Still, Republicans used the attack to drive their point home that President Obama and his administration were weak in foreign policy, with Rice morphing into the whipping boy.

Even though President Obama and incumbent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would rush to Rice’s defense, with the President defiantly stating, “If Sen. [John] McCain and Sen. [Lindsey] Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. When they go after the U.N. ambassador apparently because they think she’s an easy target, then they’ve got a problem with me.”

Still, Republicans, such as Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), continued to criticize Rice, complaining that they preferred for “someone of independence” to get the secretary position as opposed to someone who is loyal to the President.

Clear about the “politicization” of her position, Rice called her treatment “an irresponsible distraction,” “The position of secretary of state should never be politicized,” she wrote, adding, “I’m saddened that we have reached this point, even before you have decided whom to nominate. We cannot afford such an irresponsible distraction from the most pressing issues facing the American people.”

Rice, highly respected by her peers, is the first African-American woman to serve as a UN Ambassador. Before her current position, Rice served former President Bill Clinton as an assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Before Republicans decided to demonize her, she was considered the frontrunner for the position.

In what could only be called “ironic,” a recent poll conducted by GWU/Politico shows that failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is viewed favorably by the exact percentage of people he criticized just this past September, according to the Washington Post.

George Washington University and Politico surveyed 1,000 likely voters December 2 to December 6 to measure Romney’s and VP presidential nominee Paul Ryan‘s favorability ratings post-election, and the results are interesting, to say the least: Of those polled, only 47 percent view the Republican poster children favorably, while President Barack Obama continues to lead in favorability with 52 percent.

The poll findings are nearly laughable given Romney’s criticism of the nation’s 47 percent at a private fund-raising event that was secretly recorded by Mother Jones. At the time, Romney arrogantly stated that 47 percent of this nation doesn’t pay income tax and believe themselves to be “victims” who look to intermittently depend on the government:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.

That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

Watch Romney’s unfortunate statements here:

The poll also gives some insight in to how the public views other Republican leaders. Florida Senator Marc Rubio has an awareness gap to make up, with 36 percent of respondents not even knowing who he is. House Speaker John Boehner, who continues to stubbornly resist the President’s calls for compromise on this nation’s impending fiscal cliff, is reportedly viewed negatively by 34 percent. Finally, potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush is also viewed unfavorably at 34 percent, making any Republican plans to take over the White House or even regain important House and Senate seats bleak.

President Barack Obama called in to the Tom Joyner Morning Show on Wednesday to thank the legendary shock jock and his staff for their efforts to help him get his message out to the masses. In addition to thanking Joyner, the President explained the fiscal cliff, how it affects the African American community, and how everyone can help.

He also defended Susan Rice and expressed his disdain for the questions of her integrity. Obama also said that, unlike winning an NBA championship, his reelection did not warrant a trip to Disneyland; he was work to do.

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Here is a snippet of the conversation below:

Tom Joyner: Big Chief?

THE PRESIDENT: Hey, man. (Laughter.) How you doing?

Tom Joyner: I’m doing good. How you doing?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I am blessed. Are we already on the air, Tom?

Tom Joyner: Yes. I’m rolling.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, listen, the reason I’m calling is just to say thank you. I’m saying thank you to you and the team, but most importantly to say thank you to the listeners because when I saw what was going on on Election Day, and just seeing everybody so determined and waiting in line and just not putting up with anything to make sure that we were able to keep moving forward on our agenda, I couldn’t have been prouder or more humbled. And I know that it was because of the efforts of folks all across the country volunteering, writing $5 checks, $10 checks. It just meant a lot. And I know I couldn’t have done it without you guys, so I wanted to let you know we appreciate you.

Sybil Wilkes: And we did it without any gifts, Mr. President.

THE PRESIDENT: See there. We didn’t — (laughter) — well, let me just not touch that.

Over the past four years, we have seen an onslaught of petulance, ignorance, and downright racism directed at President Barack Obama and the rest of the non-White race by a select group of American ignoramuses who are namely conservatives. Here, NewsOne has put together a top-10 list of conservatives that we would repeatedly give an open-handed serve to if we were playing for the Olympic volleyball team.

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1) Herman Cain

There are very few Black men walking the earth who can make Uncle Tom look like Louis Farrakhan. Herman the “Chocolate Walnut” Cain is one of them.

During a radio interview, Cain suggested that President Obama was not a real Black man and that he could siphon African-American votes from the Commander-in-Chief if he were to square off against him in the general election. It also didn’t help that he insulted himself when taking a jab at the President’s intellect during a campaign stop in New Hampshire: “We need a leader, not a reader.”

There were several times during the campaign when NewsOne wanted to reach through the TV and backhand this clown. During a campaign stop in Iowa on Jan. 2, 2012, he told a small room of supporters, “I don’t want to make Black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.” Really, Santorum? Why target Black people when, according to the Root, White people overwhelmingly receive the vast majority tax-funded government benefits?

Oh, and then there was that time that Santorum brought up Obama’s race when discussing abortion during an interview on Jan. 19, 2011:

“The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says, ‘No.’ Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a Black man to say, ‘We’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.'”

We bet Santorum, like Romney, found it remarkable that, that Black man won the White House running against established White male candidates — twice! We’d love to backhand some common sense in to this fool, but we believe Obama winning all of those female votes (and lots of White ones too) was a big enough hit to his ego.

3) Donald Trump

If there was ever a man we wish we could slap into perpetuity, it would be Donald Trump. This man has asked for Obama’s birth certificate so many times, you’d think he was Obama’s daddy. As much as NewsOne would love to slap “The Donald,” we don’t have to. During “The Apprentice,” that clown got slapped with White House power when the President interrupted his show to announce that he oversaw an operation that took down Osama bin Laden.

Guess what, Donald? SLAP!

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4) Allen West

If selling out one’s race were a full-time occupation, Allen West could have been Chief-of-Staff of the master’s “Big House.”

During a Fox News interview, he referred to himself as a “modern day Harriet Tubman,” leading Black folks off of the Democrats plantation. He also referred to Rep. Maxine Waters as a “plantation boss.”

“You have this 21st-century plantation that has been out there, where the Democrat Party has forever taken the Black vote for granted,” he said. “And you have established certain Black leaders, who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation. And now the people on that plantation are upset, because they have been disregarded, disrespected, and their concerns are not cared about.”

Well, Mr. West, no one cares about you anymore. You were ceremoniously slapped out of Congress. So, please, go away, Negro. Just leave us alone.

5) Rush Limbaugh

Hmm. Where can we begin?

How about that time when he said, “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?” Or the time when he said, [To an African-American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” You can get details on all of this man’s hate-filled commentary here.

Soon after Obama was elected, Rush rattled off that he wanted the country to fail. So, basically, his animus toward America’s first Black president is so intense that he wants all of American to sink. We wish Limbaugh would sink–for life! On that note, we’ll leave it to Wanda Sykes to break down how we at NewsOne feel about this loser. Watch below:

6) Joe Wilson

Only a man with an unmitigated sense of privilege and entitlement would scream “you lie” to the President of the United States as he is delivering the State of the Union address before a nationally televised audience. Who decided to take their disrespect to an entirely new level? Enter Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). For that alone, he gets slapped — like, three, four, and five times.

7) Newt Gingrich

Gingrich is one of those southern “good ol’ boys” who doesn’t think that he is racist; yet, he reminds us every once in a while that he is. In 2007, the Associated Press quoted him as saying that bilingual education is teaching “the language of living in a ghetto” during a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.

And what is up with him and the rest of these conservatives being hellbent on linking Black folks to food stamps? Newt referred to Obama as “the food stamp President” during his failed run at the White House earlier this year. During a GOP debate, though, he denied that the comments were racist. In fact, he defended them. For this, he gets smacked for thinking we are stuck on stupid.

8) Mitt Romney

No matter how many times we’d slap Mitt Romney, we’re not sure he’d ever see the light.

During a phone call with supports after losing to Obama, he proved as much: “The Obama campaign was following the old playbook of giving a lot of stuff to groups that they hoped they could get to vote for them and be motivated to go out to the polls, specifically the African American community, the Hispanic community and young people.”

Giving lots of stuff, like, we don’t know, health care and humane immigration reform? Yep, that is what he meant.

“With regards to African American voters, Obamacare was a huge plus,” Mr. Romney said. “You can imagine for somebody making $25 or $30 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care — particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care is worth, what, $10,000 a family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge. Likewise with Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus.”

“I think the surprise was some of the turnout, especially in the urban areas, gave President Obama the big margin to win this race. There’s always an electoral college strategy in winning these things and you know which states you need to win. to get to 270 electoral votes. When we look at the map here of Virginia and Ohio coming in, as tight as they were, and looking like we were going to lose them, that’s when it became clear to us that we weren’t going to win.”

Like we don’t vote! We showed you, didn’t we?

Oh, well. The “Once you go Black, you never go back” thing didn’t work for Ryan, we suppose. We guess all those Black women lining up to vote for Obama in those “urban areas” had him thinking that he should have stayed on ” Team Sista” when he had the chance.

10) Tea Party

If NewsOne were the Jolly Black Giant, we’d would use our big wide hand, find the nearest Tea Party convention and smack every face in the room for being outright stupid–especially the plantation Negroes who support them. (See: Allen West, Herman Cain, Kenneth Blackwell, etc). Of all of the outrageous things the Tea Party has done, the Tea Party Victory Fund takes the cake. The Super PAC funded a video that lied about Obama giving Black people in Cleveland free phones (see the video below). Then there was the time when Tea Party protesters spat on Black members of Congress.

Sometimes we wish these people would choke on their tea and go away — forever.

According to a White House press release, President Barack Obama (pictured right) and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (pictured) met in the Private Dining Room over white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad to discuss America’s leadership and how to maintain it.

The press release continues:

Governor Romney congratulated the President for the success of his campaign and wished him well over the coming four years.

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They pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together on shared interests arise in the future.

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WASHINGTON — Bitter campaign foes just weeks ago, President Barack Obama (pictured right) and Mitt Romney (pictured) are sharing lunch at the White House with an eye on overlapping interests rather than the sharp differences that defined their presidential contest.

In their first meeting since the election, Obama and the Republican nominee are to meet in the White House’s private dining room Thursday, fulfilling a promise Obama made in his victory speech the night of Nov. 6.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama had no specific agenda for the meeting, but he said the President would like to discuss Romney’s ideas for making government more efficient. Obama has proposed merging some functions of government related to business and has asked Congress for authority to undertake some executive branch reorganization.

“The President noted that Gov. Romney did a terrific job running the Olympics and that that skills set lends itself to ideas that could make the federal government work better, which is a passion of the President’s,” Carney said.

Obama aides said they reached out to Romney’s team shortly before Thanksgiving to start working on a date for the meeting. The two men will meet alone in the White House’s private dining room, with no press coverage expected.

While in Washington, Romney will also meet with his former running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, according to a Romney campaign aide. Ryan is back on Capitol Hill, where he’s involved in negotiations to avert a series of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts that have come to be known as the “fiscal cliff.”

Much of that debate centers on expiring tax cuts first enacted in the George W. Bush administration. Obama and Romney differed sharply during the campaign over what to do with the cuts, with the Republican pushing for them to be extended for all income earners and the President running on a pledge to let the cuts expire for families making more than $250,000 a year.

The White House sees Obama’s victory as a signal that Americans support his tax proposals.

Obama and Romney’s sit-down Thursday was expected to be their most extensive private meeting to date. The two men had only a handful of brief exchanges before the 2012 election.

Even after their political fates became intertwined, their interactions were largely confined to the three presidential debates.

Romney has virtually disappeared from politics following his election loss. He’s spent the past three weeks largely in seclusion at his family’s Southern California home. He has made no public appearances, drawing media attention only after being photographed at Disneyland in addition to stops at the movies and the gym with his wife, Ann.

Just before the election, Trump’s three children reportedly went to their dad’s office to ask him to calm down with the Obama-bashing, because it is hurting his reputation:

“The three of them met and went to see their dad in his Fifth Ave. office. They showed a lot of respect, but told him he’s worked too long and too hard to build up the reputation he has. They understand completely he’s always been outspoken and that he likes attention, but this is too much.”

The children, who will naturally inherit their father’s wealth, seem to be aware of how their father’s tarnished reputation can hurt their dad’s — and eventually their — business:

“They want their dad to get respect and then the whole family does well,” the insider added.

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Even though Trump’s rep denies that the meeting ever happened — “They would never ever do that. It never happened. It’s simply untrue” — Trump’s reputation has surely taken a dive with his seemingly obsessive targeting of the President.

About two years in to President Obama’s first term, Trump, who went on the offensive, slammed the President’s steering of the economy as well as his foreign policy. But it was Trump’s decision to join his voice with the Birther Movement that will probably go down as one of the real estate mogul’s lowest moments.

In spring of 2011, Trump arrogantly demanded that the President release his long form birth certificate, and even went on the record saying that he had people on the ground in Hawaii investigating the President’s place of birth:

“Well, I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re [seeing]…. And they cannot believe what they’re finding. And I’m serious,” Trump told “Today” show host Meredith Vieira back in 2011.

With Trump’s calls for his birth certificate becoming increasingly aggressive and insulting — clouding many of the dire economic issues that needed attention at the time — President Obama released his long form birth certificate in April 2011, rightfully criticizing the media for fixating on such “silliness”:

“I know that there is going to be a segment of people for which no matter what we put out, this issue will not be put to rest,” Obama said. “But I am speaking for the vast majority of the American people as well as for the press. We do not have time for this kind of silliness.

“We have better stuff to do. I have got better stuff to do. We have got big problems to solve.” “We are not going to be able to do it if we are distracted, we are not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other … if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts, we are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by side shows and carnival barkers.”

Watch the President discuss releasing his birth certificate here:

Shortly after, Trump released a statement about the birth certificate release:

“Today I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish,” said Trump on the release of the president’s birth certificate, according to NBC News. “I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true. … But he should have done it a long time ago.”

But not surprisingly, Trump still wouldn’t be satisfied, leading many to concur that there were other more insidious reasons (read: racism) for his obsession with the President’s place of birth, particularly because the President’s birth certificate had been available to the public online for at least three years.

Just a few weeks before this year’s presidential election, Trump annoyed the masses with an announcement that he coined a “game changer” for voters. The big reveal would quickly turn into the big flop once Trump resurrected his Birther rhetoric, asking for the President to release “his college records and applications” and “passport applications and records.”

Watch Trump make more of a fool of himself here:

Trump’s announcement clearly indicated to many that he had truly gone over the edge, voluntarily pushing himself in to obscurity.

Even if Trump didn’t have a sit-down with his children, he would do well to pretend that he had and take a permanent timeout from politics.

That is unlikely, though, since being a racist has a unique way of clouding one’s judgment.

]]>http://newsone.com/2089147/donald-trump-children-obama/feed/38donald-trump-childrenioneafisherdonald-trump-childrenThe 93 Percent: Will Black Obama Supporters Demand A Black Agenda?http://newsone.com/2087888/black-agenda-barack-obama/
http://newsone.com/2087888/black-agenda-barack-obama/#commentsSat, 24 Nov 2012 14:13:04 +0000http://newsone.com/?p=2087888]]>WASHINGTON (AP) — When black voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, black leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief.

That encouraged those leaders to try to leverage more attention from both Obama and Congress. Although they waver over how much to demand from the president – particularly in light of defeated GOP challenger Mitt Romney’s assertion that Obama gave “gifts” to minorities in exchange for their votes – they are delivering postelection wish lists to the president anyway.

“I think the president heard us loud and clear. The collective message was, `Let’s build on where we already are,'” the Rev. Al Sharpton told reporters after a White House meeting last week with a collection of advocates representing largely Democratic constituencies.

Specifically, Sharpton said, that means keeping the brunt of the looming “fiscal cliff” of tax increases and spending cuts off the backs of the middle and working class.

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous aimed that same message at Congress, especially on where tax relief is extended.

“We need Republicans to think hard and to pull back from the cliff 98 percent of our families, who make up the bulk of this nation, from seeing our taxes being raised,” Jealous said.

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Blacks made up 13 percent of the electorate this year, about the same as 2008, while participation among whites shrank slightly to 72 percent and Hispanics increased to 10 percent, national exit polls showed. Black leaders point to that minority participation as they sharpen their calls for initiatives to address black unemployment, which was 12.7 percent when Obama took office, peaked at 16.5 percent roughly a year later, and stood at 14.3 percent in October. The overall unemployment rate is 7.9 percent.

National Urban League President Marc Morial acknowledged in an interview that “we sweated turnout all the way to the end,” because the country’s underlying economic conditions made it tougher to mobilize black voters. Within days of the election, Morial sent to Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., an “urgent petition” asking that Obama’s second term focus on economic opportunity and income inequality.

A jobs program should emphasize infrastructure and public works, broadband technology and energy “with a special focus on those communities where unemployment is and remains stubbornly and persistently high,” Morial’s letter said.

“We who represent the nation’s urban communities will demand a seat at the table in these discussions,” he wrote.

African-American voter samples in national exit polls are not useful for providing turnout measurements. Census surveys and other analyses eventually will provide turnout numbers for specific racial groups. But exit polls can be used to examine different groups as shares of the overall vote. And there, experts say, is where the evidence can be found of how much black voters delivered for Obama.

Nationally, Obama’s share of the black vote was down slightly from four years ago. But in some key states, turnout was higher and had an impact, said David Bositis, an expert on black politics and voting at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Blacks made up 15 percent of the electorate in Ohio, up from 11 percent in 2008. And 97 percent of those votes went for Obama, leading Bositis to say Obama’s margin of victory in the state came from black voters.

In Michigan, the black share of the vote grew from 12 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2012, according to exit polls.

“Michigan was one of the states the two parties jostled around, and eventually Republicans decided they were not going to win, and one of the reasons was the big increase in the black vote,” Bositis said.

In Missouri, a state Obama lost in both elections, the black vote went from 13 percent to 16 percent of all voters.

Bositis said the black share of the vote remained roughly the same at 23 percent in North Carolina, which Obama narrowly won in 2008 but lost in 2012, and 13 percent in Florida, which Obama won both times. In Virginia, which Obama won in both elections, black voters were 20 percent of all voters, he said.

Women and people from ages 18 to 29 had the strongest participation levels in the black community.

In 2008, black women had the highest turnout rate, 69 percent, of all groups. Their 2008 record created a sense of obligation among some black female leaders to take an active role against new state voting laws they said threatened to curb black voter participation. Black women made up 60 percent of the black vote this year and voted 95 percent for Obama.

The enthusiasm of black women was demonstrated in Florida when more than 250 churches marched their congregations to the polls as part of the “Souls To the Polls” early voting campaign, said Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. A large percentage of the marchers were women, Campbell said.

“Countless women stood in line for hours to vote early so they could volunteer to work at the polls to help in the fight against voter suppression,” Campbell said.

Black voters ages 18-29 made up 26 percent of the black vote nationally, a turnout close to what it was in 2008, according to the national exit poll. They voted 91 percent for Obama.

Republicans had reached out to black voters in 2004 and saw their share of the black vote increase in that election, Bositis said. But he said that in 2012, the outreach was nonexistent.

Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chairman, said the GOP had an opportunity this election to connect with black voters on unemployment, health disparities, incarceration and other issues.

“How the heck do you win if you don’t engage in the conversation?” Steele said.

]]>http://newsone.com/2087888/black-agenda-barack-obama/feed/28SHARPTON_OBAMAkirstenwestsavaliSHARPTON_OBAMAObama’s ‘Runway To Win’ Fashion Line Rakes In Over $40 Million [VIDEO]http://newsone.com/2087813/obama-runway-to-win/
http://newsone.com/2087813/obama-runway-to-win/#commentsSat, 24 Nov 2012 14:00:14 +0000http://newsone.com/?p=2087813]]>Conservatives mocked Vogue’s Ann Wintour and the campaign of President Barack Obama for a “ritzy” fashion initiative called ‘Runway To Win,” conceived by Wintour to raise money for the president’s re-election efforts.

Well, it appears as if the joke is on them.

According to campaign manager Jim Messina, the eclectic fashion palette raked in over $40 million dollars, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.

See RNC mocking the fashion initiative below:

The original offerings included $40 set of nail polishes from Richard Blanch, a $75 Tory Burch tote bag and two $95 scarves from Monique Pean and Thakoon.

Though the clothes and accessories can no longer be viewed at the Store.BarackObama.com, interested fashionistas can still catch a glimpse on several sites, including Vogue.com.

Republicans blasted the Obama campaign as “elitist” for the idea due to harsh economic conditions in the United States; conveniently forgetting that through Karl Rove, the Mitt Romney campaign was gifted with $127 million. Over $1 billion was raised through Rove for Republican races around the country.

Talk about attempting to buy an election.

Still, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman reports that over $6 billion was spent across both parties this election cycle. This comes “at a time when one in six Americans is poor, with over 16 million children living in poverty… [and] poverty rates for blacks and Latinos are twice as high as the rates for whites,” said Goodman.

I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion—poverty, trade unions being pushed against the wall dealing with stagnating and declining wages when profits are still up and the 1 percent are doing very well, no talk about drones dropping bombs on innocent people. So we end up with such a narrow, truncated political discourse, as the major problems—ecological catastrophe, climate change, global warming. So it’s very sad. I mean, I’m glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama, so that our struggle with regard to poverty intensifies.

I would imagine that it is very difficult for President Obama to rely on capitalism to spread a populist message wrapped in middle-class clothing, but this Wintour windfall proves that his campaign achieves it effortlessly.

]]>http://newsone.com/2087813/obama-runway-to-win/feed/6Obama 2008kirstenwestsavaliObama 2008Conservative Host Goes In On Secessionists, Calls Them ‘Petulant Children’http://newsone.com/2086323/se-cupp-msnbc/
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If you’ve been more than annoyed with conservatives crying over their loss to President Barack Obama, you are not alone. Apparently, some conservatives are fed up too. Enter “The Cycle” co-host S.E. Cupp, who recently laid in to her fellow Republicans as if she was whaling on her disobedient children. According to Cupp, even though she, too, was disappointed over failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s dramatic loss, it is time for Republicans to stop “pout[ing] in the corner like children.”

At the end of “The Cycle’s broadcast on Tuesday, Cupp took time out to commiserate with fellow Republicans over President Obama’s win:

“I think, as footage proves, I was unreserved in expressing my disappointment that President Obama won re-election. I have been a stalwart defender of the conservative principles he’s opposed and I’ve been critical of his failures.”

But that sympathy would stop there.

Immediately after, Cupp would go on to say what many Democrats have been thinking — if not saying — about Republicans, namely secessionists, and their “we’re-breaking-up-the-union theatrics”:

“But I am also not a petulant child. That’s one way I describe the secessionist movement.”

Ouch!

But she’s only getting started. Cupp wastes no time handedly disciplining her brood and then sending them to take a time out:

“With all due respect to my fellow conservatives-in-arms who are choosing to deal with this loss by threatening to leave the country and take a state or two with them, may I just say: Go to the corner, you need a time out.”

With her peers on the ropes, Cupp then instructs them to move on with their lives — as she was forced to do the day after the election:

“On the morning after the election I woke up, ate breakfast, put clothes on, and got back to the business of living my life. Yes, it’s under a president whose policies make my blood boil, but I don’t think moving to Canada would solve much of anything….

“There will be another election in four years. Even though many of these policies will be hard if not impossible to undo, I’d rather be an American than a “New Yorkian,” because that just sounds weird….

“We were in it for the long haul. We knew we’d have to work for it. And that’s what I’m going to keep doing because when things don’t go our way, we don’t pout in the corner like children. We put on our big boy pants and get down to business, and now more than ever we need to commit to our great country. We need to commit to each other and find ways to disagree productively. This stunt is immature and unpatriotic and I resent it.”

Cupp then drops the mike.

Watch Cupp’s advice to secessionists here:

It’s good to know that Republicans are starting to reign in their ridiculous behavior. Up until the President won, the majority of Republicans refused to acknowledge that Mitt Romney and his demented flip-flopping wasn’t a serious blow to his campaign. In fact, if you heard them re-tell the story, the American people were eating up Romney’s schizophrenic rhetoric like it was Thanksgiving dinner.

Those who were willing to look at the facts, such as Colin Powell, knew that it was quite a stretch to think that Romney could win the presidency on such a precarious platform. Then there were experts, such as the New York Times’ Nate Silver, who looked at the polls and concluded that Romney wouldn’t win because he lagged in key areas and demographics.

But still, most Republicans refused to listen, with all pertinent information contrary to their beliefs being sidelined and dismissed.

Now they are crying out “bloody murder” as if many experts and the American people didn’t clue them in on this reality ahead of time. If Republicans have learned anything, it is that they can no longer make up their own reality, and Cupp’s verbal beatdown underscores this point.

It’s time for Republicans to wake up.

Sound off!

Take Our Poll]]>http://newsone.com/2086323/se-cupp-msnbc/feed/0se-cupp-secessionistioneafisherse-cupp-secessionistBill O’Reilly Scolds Blacks For Not Embracing ‘American Exceptionalism’http://newsone.com/2085855/bill-oreilly-black-people-american-exceptionalism/
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Bill O’Reilly (pictured) hasn’t handled the results of this year’s presidential election well. If you tuned in to FOX News’s unintentional comedic coverage that night, you might’ve heard the popular conservative pundit bemoan the shift of the electorate with a big whiff of racism.

The demographics are changing. It’s not a traditional America anymore, and there are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff, they want things. And who is going to give them things? President [Barack] Obama.

“The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart decoded “traditional voters” on his show for what it is — racism — and O’Reilly has now responded with more racism. Give yourself a few seconds to breathe if you’re overcome with great shock.

If you look at the exit polling, you’ll see that a coalition of voters put the President back into the oval office. That coalition was non-tradition, which means it veered away from things like traditional marriage, robust capitalism, and self-reliance.

Instead, each constituency that voted for the President — whether it be single women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, whatever — had very specific reasons for doing so. […]

Traditional American voters generally want a smaller government in Washington, more local control, some oversight on abortion, and believe in American exceptionalism.

For such a stickler of tradition, you’d think O’Reilly would point out how White people often take up the lion’s share of welfare benefits, but that would take away from the primitive view of Black people that he holds near and dear to his heart.

If you recall, when O’Reilly once joined Al Sharpton for dinner in Harlem, he mentioned how he simply “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by Blacks, primarily Black patronship.” To his surprise, “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘Motherf*cker, I want more iced tea!'”

So O’Reilly’s racist leanings aren’t surprising, though he is certainly becoming more overt with it. I could feign shock about this most-recent instance of his racial stereotyping by ranting and raving about how disgusting his comments are, but we already know that, so why bother helping him dig his own grave when he’s doing a fine job of doing it himself?

What is interesting is the fact that O’Reilly can’t fathom why certain groups — women, Blacks, Latinos, gays, the poor — wouldn’t quickly fall for the okey doke for his notion of “American exceptionalism.” O’Reilly fancies himself a part-time historian, yet can’t see to fathom why such a sentiment might not resonate with people who have long been ostracized in this country — or you know, people who can read things like statistics that show how far behind America is when compared to other industrialized nations on matters like education and health care.

Such is the joy of being a White man living in a bubble, and evidently, the pain of realizing that sooner rather than later, that bubble is going to bust.

In fact, I hope O’Reilly continues peddling his prejudices. Go on. Mobilize the troops. Allow what David Frum describes as the “conservative entertainment complex” to continue to soil any chances Republicans have at gaining the control they long yielded over national politics. Let O’Reilly throw all the fits he wants over the future. He’s not stopping it; he’s merely helping it come faster. And once these cultural and political shifts cement, perhaps America might finally be as exceptional as some purport it to be.

Michael Arceneaux is a Houston-bred, Howard-educated writer and blogger. You can read more of his work on his site, The Cynical Ones. Follow him on Twitter: @youngsinick

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tea party firebrand Rep. Allen West conceded his re-election fight Tuesday, two weeks after the election gave way to court appearances, two partial recounts and unending accusations by his camp that the vote count wasn’t fair.

In a statement, the Republican freshman said “there are certainly still inaccuracies in the results” but not enough to change the outcome, giving the race to Democratic newcomer Patrick Murphy.

“While a contest of the election results might have changed the vote totals, we do not have evidence that the outcome would change,” West said.

Murphy campaign manager Anthony Kusich said he was not aware of any concession call to his candidate, simply an e-mail that was publicly distributed. In his own statement, Murphy said he was “humbled by Congressman West’s gracious concession” and eager to get to work on behalf of all voters.

“To those who supported my opponent, my door is open and I want to hear your voice,” Murphy said. “I campaigned on a message of reaching across the aisle to get things done for the people of the Treasure Coast and Palm Beaches, and that is as important in this district as it is in Washington.”

Murphy declared victory in the wee hours of Election Night and has held his lead ever since, even as thousands of absentee, provisional and overseas ballots were processed and two partial recounts undertaken. But West’s campaign kept up a stream of skepticism about the results, largely focused on St. Lucie County, where elections officials acknowledged missteps.

An initial recount of some early ballots in St. Lucie gave West a slight bump. His campaign fought for a fuller recount, and received it, but it only improved Murphy’s margin of victory. He won by more than 2,000 votes.

Many have speculated West could find a new career in the place where he has been frequently seen, on cable television, but he has not said what his next step will be. “Only God knows what is in store for each of us,” he said in his statement, adding that “I will continue to fight for our republic.”

Whatever the next step, the contest between Murphy and West will go down as one of the most expensive in congressional history. Murphy eked out the win though he was out-fundraised more than four-to-one.

West, 51, is a favorite among the most conservative reaches of the Republican Party. He has made a string of headline-grabbing statements, from calling a majority of congressional Democrats communists to saying President Barack Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and others should “get the hell out of the United States.”

Murphy, 29, portrayed West as an extremist who had done little else in Washington than stoke partisan fires.

In his concession statement, West offered congratulations to Murphy, saying “I pray he will serve his constituents with honor and integrity, and put the interests of our nation before his own.”

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Last week, Holly Solomon (pictured above, below right) made headlines, after mowing down her husband because he did not vote in this year’s presidential election, “allowing” President Barack Obama to win re-election. According to court documents, doctors are saying that Daniel (pictured below), who is in critical condition, may have “permanent disfigurement” from the near-fatal injuries he sustained from his pregnant wife, according to the Daily Mail.

While reportedly arguing with Holly about the election results, Daniel allegedly jumped out of the car to get away from her. Reportedly forced to hide behind a light post, Daniel’s increasingly belligerent wife literally drove circles around him while screaming at him. According to eyewitnesses, Holly allegedly hit Daniel with her car when he tried to make a run for it.

Holly reportedly told police later that she mistakenly stepped on the accelerator when she only meant to scare him.

A caller told a 911 dispatcher, “He got out of the car and she was screaming at him. And he started walking away and she started driving in circles around him and she wouldn’t let him go so finally he took off to try to get away and she ran in to him.”

Daniel, who has been on the brink of death since the incident, suffered “massive injuries.” The Daily Mail reports:

Even though the 2012 presidential election was known to polarize the Gilbert, Ariz., town between party lines, according to residents, no one reportedly imagined that such violence could erupt within a family.

But Holly’s disdain for the President was intense, with Daniel once saying that his wife “just hated Obama.”

While Romney did win Arizona, the President was able to rack up 332 electoral votes, with Romney only nabbing 206, effectively winning re-election. The President also won the popular vote.

As for Holly, she was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and reckless driving.

West, however, realized that he was even further behind in the his District 18 congressional race on Sunday than on Election Day, The Palm Beach Post reports.

A new tally of votes released on Sunday by the St. Lucie election board showed Murphy with a with 65,841 vote count to West’s 52,704, increasing his lead to 0.65 percent.

Murphy’s senior adviser called for West to concede. Though a representative from the one-term Congressman’s camp balked at the request. “As usual, Murphy’s people are full of garbage,” Tim Edson, West’s campaign manager, said to The Post. “This is something the secretary of state and governor will have to sort out.”

Here is more from The Post:

The win came at 12:01 p.m., when Johnson told Murphy supporters and the media that the St. Lucie County Canvassing Board had missed its noon deadline to file results to the state Division of Elections.

The results from one precinct could not be fully uploaded during the recount, said St. Lucie County Commissioner Tod Mowery, a canvassing board member. Even though the data were manually entered and the rest of the results were sent to state officials, the board could not certify the results because of the problems with the single cartridge.

Under Florida law, the certified unofficial results submitted a week ago Sunday stand when the certified results do not arrive on time. Those results have Murphy, a Democrat, winning by 0.58 percent. A spread of less than 0.50 percent would have triggered an automatic recount.

Preliminary numbers released around 2 p.m. by the St. Lucie County board showed Murphy with an even greater lead, with 65,841 votes to West’s 52,704. When those results are added to the final tallies in Martin and Palm Beach counties, Murphy’s lead increased to 0.65 percent.

West’s options are limited. Shortly after noon, his legal team began discussing an emergency exemption in the law that permits final returns to be filed after the deadline. That exemption defines emergency as any occurrence “that results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property to the extent it will prohibit an election officer’s ability to conduct a safe and orderly election.”

Though West’s chances of being reelected are looking slimmer than the rims of his glasses, it is not in his nature to go down without a fight. Even in a possibly exit, West will likely make headlines as he bites the election campaign dust.

In today’s “Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds Because Obama Won News,” NewsOne brings you the story of Cope Reynolds. The Pinetop, Arizona gunshop owner has taken out an ad in a local newspaper and posted a sign on the door of Southwest Shooting Authority letting it be known that people who voted for President Barack Obama are no longer welcome in his establishment, reports Talking Points Memo.

The ad placed in the White Mountain Independent reads as follows:

“If you voted for Barack Obama your business is not welcome at Southwest Shooting Authority. You have proven that you are not responsible enough to own a firearm.”

Photo Credit: Phoenix New Times

Photo Credit: Phoenix New Times

Reynolds explained in a letter to AmmoLand.com that he wasn’t motivated by profit, but old-fashioned “values”:

To Whom it May Concern:

I thought you all might be interested in this.

We will try to demonstrate once again that the bottom line for our business is principle, not money.

Yes, it has been damaging at times but our values are intact.

Effective immediately, if you voted for Obama, your money is no good here. You have proven beyond a doubt that you are not responsible enough to own a firearm. We have just put a sign up on the front door to save you the trouble of walking all the way in here…

I took this ad out in our local paper. It will come out in the White Mountain Independent tomorrow, 9 November

Reynolds joins a list that includes secessionists, Holly Solomon, also from the great state of Arizona, who ran over her husband for not voting for Mitt Romney, teen billionaire Peter Brant II who ‘joked’ about killing President Obama on Twitter for making him “poor,” rioting students at Ole Miss, and Florida resident Henry Hamilton, who commited suicide because he couldn’t stand the thought of Barack Obama being President of the United States.

Reynolds has also voiced his support of Arizona’s neo-secessionist movement on Twitter, telling his followers to know the law when it comes to carrying unconcealed weapons.

Why, in case there’s a Civil War?

If you live in AZ, please consider signing this petition to secede from the U.S. We are already over 30% there! fb.me/V9Y24N9Q

Did any of you reading this blog ever visualize being the President of the United States when you were a young person dreaming up potential careers? As children, most of us wanted to be things that were far from our grasp, but when I was a kid growing up in New York, nobody around me ever really dreamed about becoming President of the United States or running for Congress or Senate; it just didn’t happen. Seeing nothing but mostly White men holding local and national office, the idea of one of us leading the way wasn’t something we regularly imagined. As a young girl, I aimed high, but females, especially Black females, were not common in national political office where I came from.

But then the election of 2008 happened.

And not only were so many young people of color engaged for the first time, but we saw exactly what happens when we take the time to vote: it was a period of political euphoria.

And now in 2012, we again paid attention to issues we care about like women’s rights, health care reform, education, immigration reform, student loan debt, and more. We listened, researched, and we voted. And it was us – Blacks, Latinos, Asians and women – that largely decided the 2012 election on all levels.

We’ve got the power; now we have to figure out how to keep using it.

Along with re-electing President Obama, we sent many Congressional and Senate members back to D.C. who sided with fighting for the majority and not the wealthy 1 percent. But we also made strides by electing a record number of women into the Senate. For the first time in U.S. history, women will hold 20 seats in the Senate. We elected the first Asian-American female from the state of Hawaii, and the first openly gay female from the state of Wisconsin. And in the state of New Hampshire, we elected an all-female delegation with two women heading to Congress (the state already has two female Senators).

This in itself speaks volumes about the power of our vote.

When we look at the percentage breakdown of the “minority vote,” it truly is amazing. Some 93 percent of Blacks voted for President Obama, as did 71 percent of Latinos. Young people – those aged 18 to 29 – also overwhelming supported this President. And 70 percent or more of Asians and gays/lesbians also re-elected President Obama, while a majority of women (especially single women) also cast their vote in his favor.

Those numbers just say it all.

Not only are the demographics of the country changing, but we are paying attention and we are getting involved. Now that we’re on a high from this election, we have to keep moving forward.

For too long we haven’t used the power of our vote and the power of our voices to shape the way we want our country to go. First, of course, we weren’t allowed to vote, then we were systematically kept out of the process, but now, in 2012, after we’ve pushed back against voter suppression, we’ve got to harness our power even more.

There will be local elections where you live, and there will be the mid-term elections before you know it. All of us have to start studying what races will take place where we are, and we have to participate in the process.

Voting and putting people in office really does impact you directly – and don’t let anybody ever tell you otherwise. Even if you never dreamed of becoming President as a kid, you can see what happens when we vote people in to office that address our issues and address our hopes for the future.

The power’s in our hands; let’s continue using it. Now’s not the time to sit back; now’s the time to get more involved. And anyone who wants our vote better understand who’s got the power.

]]>http://newsone.com/2083826/black-vote/feed/4tamika-mallory-THUMB-blue-white-suit-e1305665107170ioneafishertamika-mallory-THUMB-blue-white-suit-e1305665107170Romney Takes Jabs At Hispanics, Young Voters In New Audio Recordingshttp://newsone.com/2083522/mitt-romney-gifts-3/
http://newsone.com/2083522/mitt-romney-gifts-3/#commentsFri, 16 Nov 2012 16:58:46 +0000http://newsone.com/?p=2083522]]>On Wednesday, NewsOnereported that Mitt Romney (pictured) blamed his Election 2012 loss on President Barack Obama’s “gifts” to his Black, immigrant, and female supporters. Now audio from that conference call with Romney’s donors has been released, and none of it sounds pretty.

“It’s a proven political strategy, which is give a bunch of money to a group and, guess what, they’ll vote for you,” he said, according to ABC News, which published the audio.

In an apparent reference to Hispanic voters who backed Obama by 71 percent, Romney remarked that “immigration we can solve, but the giving away free stuff is a hard thing to compete with.”

Listen to some of Romney’s remarks here:

Further pressing the issue Republicans have in relating to Hispanic voters, Romney said Obama won their constituency through his numerous amnesty options.
“With Hispanic voters, free health care was a big plus,” he commented. “But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called DREAM Act kids, was a huge plus for that voting group.”

Ever gracious in defeat, Romney believes that while Obama’s “gifts” to his constituents won his re-election, he’ll pay for them down the line:

“What I would do if I were a Democrat running four years from now, I’d say, You know what, dental care will be included in Obamacare…and Republicans will say, ‘No, that’s going to cost a trillion dollars,’ and the Democrats will say, ‘That’s fine, you know, we’ll pay it.'”

Turning his attention to young people, 60 percent of whom voted for Obama, Romney cited the president’s loan forgiveness and healthcare overhauls as a clincher for the 30 and under crowd.

“With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift,” he said. “Free contraceptives were very big with young college-aged women. And then, finally, Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents’ plan, and that was a big gift to young people.”

But perhaps the one likely to raise the most eyebrows is Romney’s claim that Bill Clinton called and told him he thought he was going to win the election, until Hurricane Sandy interfered:

“I spoke with President Clinton the day before yesterday. He called and spent 30 minutes chatting with me,” Romney disclosed.

“He said, ‘A week out I thought you were going to win.’ And he said, ‘But the hurricane happened, and it gave the president a chance to be presidential, and to look bipartisan, and you know he got a little more momentum.”’

“I think the surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race,” Paul Ryan told WISC-TV in his first interview since the election Monday.

Obviously, these two lack the concept of what it means to lose with dignity and grace.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Romney insisted to his puppeteers –also known as top donors — that the only reason President Barack Obama won re-election is by promising “gifts” to Black, Hispanic and young voters. Speaking aboard Air Force One, White House press secretary Jay Carney insists that Romney’s version of reality is not what happened last week:

“Let me just say that I think that view of the American people, of the electorate and of the election is at odds with the truth of what happened last week,” Carney said. “… making it easier for Americans to go to college, that’s good for America, and allowing young people to stay on their parents health insurance longer so they aren’t bankrupted in their 20s by illness, is good for the economy and it’s good for all of us.

“The president pursues policies that have at their core a desire to build the middle class, strengthen the middle class, make the middle class more secure, because that’s what makes America more secure,” he said. “So it’s just not the view we take about the decision the American people made last week.”

Though Mittens often has recurring bouts of Romnesia, at this point it’s clear that his meltdown is more an issue of denial, revisionism and self-entitlement than memory lapse. It is also an authentic glimpse at the core of a man who expects the world to give him “gifts” just for being rich, White and male.

President Obama would be better served throwing Romney and the neo-secessionists all in one large box labeled: Waste Of My Time.

If he does that, sooner or later they will get the message that they’re not important enough to distract from the serious business of running the country.

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Effectively adding his name to the list of embittered Republicans who continue to act out after President Barack Obama’s re-election win, Charlie Webster, chairman of Maine’s Republican Party, insisted that voter fraud must account for the “hundreds” of Black people who voted in his state. Why? Because neither he nor his associates know anyone who is Black, yet they showed up to cast their ballot on the big day, according to the NY Daily News.

On Wednesday, Webster told Portland’s WCHS6 that he was surprised to see all of the Black people who showed up to vote last Tuesday:

“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of Black people who came in and voted on Election Day. I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds. I’m not politically correct, and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were Black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.”

Racist? No way!

And what could be wrong with “hundreds” of Blacks voting in the lovely state of Maine on Election Day?

“Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s Black,” Webster said. “How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”

Because just as with the Antebellum period, if there were any random Black people hanging around, they would be accounted for, right? But I digress.

Webster then explains how he is going to rectify this conundrum of voter fraud.

Unfortunately for Webster, Megan Sanborn, a spokeswoman for Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers, denies that there was any indication of voter fraud or misconduct at the polls, “Our office has not heard any complaints about Election Day.”

Nice try, Charlie!

Luckily for the Black folks of Maine, Webster, who calls the President a “socialist,” will be stepping down from his post at the end of November.

Can anyone say, “Good riddance?”

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It’d be too right to get Mitt Romney to admit he ran a bad campaign, which led to his opponent handedly beating him in this year’s presidential election. Instead, Romney reiterated sentiments echoed in his “47 percent commentary” this week in a conference call with campaign donors. The Los Angeles Times reports that Romney attributed President Barack Obama’s re-election to “the gifts” the Administration had given to Blacks, Hispanics, and young voters during Obama’s first term. Romney claimed that Obama had been “very generous” to those groups, which supposedly got us all riled up at the polls.

Not to be outdone, Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan also engaged in an exercise in both hubris and haughty by whining about the role the “urban vote” played in their loss.

In his first post-election sit-down interview with CBS affiliate WISC-TV in Wisconsin, Ryan claimed, “I think the surprise was some of the turnout, especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race.” As for whether or not silly things like the issues might have factored in too, a dismissive Ryan noted, “I don’t think we lost it on those budget issues, especially on Medicare — we clearly didn’t lose it on those issues.”

Isn’t it mystifying how moronic Republicans have been with their “shock” of “urban voters” turning out in droves? And why? Most of us with melanin who regularly speak with each other already knew that these various Voter ID laws intent on suppressing our vote would encourage us to storm the polls. Same for Romney’s “government leeching Blacks” talking point. Now it’s been confirmed.

That leads us to the question: What exactly will the GOP do about it now?

As 2016 presidential prospects hop and skip away from Romney’s latest dabble in damning commentary, Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has reportedly requested a review of his state’s voting processes, particularly with an emphasis on areas where voters waited four hours or longer to cast their ballots.

In a statement, Scott said:

We are glad that so many voters made their voices heard in this election, but as we go forward we must see improvements in our election process. I have asked Secretary of State Ken Detzner to review this general election and report on ways we can improve the process after all the races are certified.

Scott went on to add:

We need to make improvements for Florida voters and it is important to look at processes on the state and the county level. We will carefully review suggestions for bettering the voting process in our state.

Yeah, about that.

There’s a reason why Florida consistently has voter drama every presidential election cycle, and the reason is because of their unreliable baby daddy: GOP leadership. It’s not a coincidence that Florida limited their two weeks of early voting to eight days. Now that it’s backfired, suddenly Scott has had a change of heart. That’s nice in theory, but the person he’s put in charge of investigating Florida’s electoral problems has already made comments that suggests he doesn’t really think there’s reason for one:

In an interview with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield, Detzner expressed no regrets of limiting early voting and voting hours, which caused Florida voters to be disenfranchised.

Well, let me point out that, while the days were cut, the number of hours were not. We still maintained 96 hours of voting, and it created greater flexibility for the supervisors. Uh, for the first time ever voters could vote during the day for 12 hours during the day, and I can tell you I heard feedback from voters going into election day that they liked the opportunity to vote either in the morning before work or after work. And frankly, I think the turnout is a good representation of the fact that people liked the voting hours and the flexibility that the supervisors had.

That’s a false equivalency and a sign that many have reason to worry about future elections.

Meanwhile, Romney campaign Wisconsin co-chair, Sen. Alberta Darling (R), told Milwaukee’s ABC affiliate that Mitt would have “absolutely” won the election if the state’s voter ID law hadn’t been blocked. How, “I would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for your meddling kids of her to say.”

In other words, while Scott may be paying lip service to the consequences of voter suppression efforts, thus far, most of his GOP brethren seem more interested in tending to their hurt feelings. And what do hurt people do? Apparently, they continue to alienate the future voting blocs that will play even bigger roles in deciding presidential elections sooner rather than later. As frustrating as that is, at least we know how the story tends to end.

1) Albert Peterson (pictured), a wealthy Washington, D.C., defense contractor, couldn’t even wait for the elections to take place. In fact, he was so distraught over the prospect of Obama possibly winning his presidential bid that he shot and killed his wife, Kathleen (pictured); two young sons, Christopher, 13, and Matthew, 16; then took his own life. Peterson was obsessed about politics and would send daily e-mails to friends and family about its climate. In addition to losing a dear uncle, the 48-year-old man was reportedly driven in to depression at the thought of Obama winning a second term. Ironically, both his father and an uncle committed suicide in past years, with Peterson making an unsuccessful attempt at taking his own life five years ago. Friends and family concur that Obama’s potential win pushed Peterson over an edge that he had been teetering from for quite a while.

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2) Holly Solomon (pictured) was so incensed that Obama was, yet again, elected president that she took out her ire on her poor husband, Daniel. Since her husband failed to vote, Holly blamed him for what she thought was a calamitous result, Obama’s re-election. So instead of balling Daniel out, Holly ran and did the next best thing: try to run him over with her Jeep! The 28-year-old woman believed that her family would continue to suffer hardship due to Obama’s policies, spurring her to chase her husband around a retail store parking lot. When the miffed wife finally did plow Daniel down, the end result for him was a fractured pelvis, torn artery, and possible permanent disfigurement. Solomon was arrested and charged with domestic violence and aggravated assault.

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3) Donald Trump (pictured) certainly showed the world how really juvenile he can be, when he went on a Twitter tirade upon learning that Obama would occupy the Oval Office again. The sore billionaire loser with the offensive comb over incessantly whined about how the election was a “total sham and a travesty…. We are not a democracy!” But do you think “The Don” hung out with failed GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney and his crew after the election? NOT! Supposedly, “Trump does not like to be associated with failure.” Well, karma is a be-atch and now Obama’s controversial critic is getting his just desserts! There is a petition through the site signon.org that urges Macy‘s to dump Trump and his branded goods from their advertisements and stores. Thus far, more than 607,000 people have signed the petition, with the million mark being not that far away. The petition, which was organized by attorney Angelo Carusone, has been signed by such A-listers, such as the singer/actress Cher, who grew tired of Trump’s political bellyaching and racism against the president. “Where’s my pen!”

4) Eric Dondero (pictured), a well-known political blogger at the Libertarian Republican has vowed to banish all of the Democrats he knows in his life, including family members. The day after the Obama won, the conservative wrote:

Starting early this morning, I am going to un-friend every single individual on Facebook who voted for Obama, or I even suspect may have Democrat leanings. I will do the same in person. All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt.”

Wow, talk about sore LOSERS!!!

5)Henry Hamilton, 64, was sickened by the election results after learning that President Obama would reign over these United States again. The Florida tanning salon owner allegedly took his own life after telling his partner two days post-election that he would not live to see Obama win a second term. When authorities found Hamilton’s body, they stumbled upon two empty prescription pill bottles, along with a copy of his will and the cryptic words “F**k Obama!”

6) A few conservative CEOs across the country lost their ever-loving minds upon learning that a U-Haul truck would NOT be pulling up to the White House! The day after the elections, Robert Murray, CEO of the coal company Murray Energy, actually read a “prayer for America” to his employees and then layed off 150 of them across three company locations when his candidate Mitt Romney lost his presidential bid. The layoff notices blamed Obama’s “war on coal” for the job cuts. Meanwhile, Papa John’s pizza CEO John Schnatter (pictured), a staunch Republican, announced that franchise owners will likely have to cut hours for employees in order to pay for the president’s health care law, Obamacare. He also stated that some of the cost will be passed on to consumers as well with prices going up between 11 and 14 cents. Finally, Zane Tankel, a New York-based Applebee’s franchisee, said he would halt plans to expand his 40-restaurant empire and put a freeze on hiring because the health care law would cost him too much.

Watch the companies laying off because of racism Obama’s re-election here:

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7) Election Day eve got pretty ugly at the University of Mississippi, when hundreds of students gathered the school’s campus toriot after the race was called for Obama. There were plenty of racial slurs hurled about the President and African Americans in general. Additionally, Obama signs were burned to the ground. Police eventually broke up the mob scene, which lasted until the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

8) A McDonalds in Follansbee, West Virginia, stirred up quite a bit of controversy when the American flag was hoisted up the pole upside down the day after presidential elections. Many onlookers who were up in arms surmised that the McDonald’s owner, Karen Mezan, was protesting her displeasure at the re-election of President Barack Obama. When calls about the irreverant protest flooded the City Manager’s office, the flag was taken down. The owner says that the flag incident was a misunderstanding that was “ill timed” and an “unfortunate mistake.” BTW, West Virginia was one of the states that went solidly for the Republican presidential Candidate Mitt Romney! ‘Nough said!

Watch news coverage of this McDonalds’s here:

9) Anti-Obama Republicans in Texas last week tried to incite a civil war, post-election, demanding that their state splinter-off from the rest of the country and the “maggots” who helped secure a second term for President Obama. Meanwhile, semi-anonymous petitions began circulating online for dozens of states to be allowed to secede. The Supreme Court has ruled that secession is only allowed if a revolution occurs or there is approval from three-fourths of the states. With the petitions having only a tiny percentage of residents signing so far, 20 states have posted petitions to have their states secede, and since the President won re-election, another 30 states have joined in. You can find the secessionists on the White House’s “We the People” website, which was started last year to encourage government openness. The White House must respond to a secession request if a state submits more than 25,000 signatures in 30 days. Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina have reached those thresholds. Oy Vey!

10) Mouth almighty and all-around baffoon Rush Limbaugh pointed his skeevy little finger of shame at the women in this country for putting Obama back in office. The man who typically spazzes out with misogynistic rants spewed yet another vulgar one regarding Obama’s win. The obnoxious GOP mouthpiece said on his radio show that he blames the gender gap for the president’s victory and women for falling in to Obama’s trap, “He treats them like vaginas and they say he’s my man.” There is just ONE word to describe Limbaugh: idiot!

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Every time you think you’ve seen everything under the sun, regarding Republican antics over President Barack Obama’s re-election last week, someone else does something that takes the bellyaching to a whole other level. Enter Florida resident and sun-tanning store owner Henry Hamilton. What could possibly have happened this time? After Hamilton learned that Obama won the election, he committed suicide in his Florida home, according to the Miami Herald.

In the weeks leading up to the election, Hamilton, whose friends said was struggling with his business, reportedly told his live-in partner, Michael Cossey, that “If Barack gets re-elected, I’m not going to be around.”

Since Hamilton was open about his intentions to those close to him, a friend asked Officer Pablo Rodriguez to perform a “welfare check” on the Tropical Tan owner.

Just two days after the President was re-elected — with Cossey asleep on the couch after reportedly spending a night out with friends — Officer Rodriguez found Hamilton dead in the condo.

The Miami Herald reports:

[Hamilton] was found dead on Nov. 8, with the words “F— Obama!” scrawled on his will and two empty prescription bottles nearby.

The prescription bottles were reportedly Xanax and Seroquel, which treat anxiety and schizophrenia, respectively.

Driving the point home, Cossey added that his partner was “very upset about the election results.”

While Hamilton’s autopsy results haven’t been delivered yet, police spokeswoman Alyson Crean insisted that foul play did not appear to be a part of this case, “There’s absolutely no evidence of foul play.”

As for Hamilton’s mental state before he reportedly overdosed on prescription drugs, Cossey, who says he last spoke with Hamilton during the election results, says Hamilton’s business stressed him out, “[he had] been very stressed about his business.”

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This election, the issue of voter disenfranchisement was front and center in several key states across the country. One of the most-controversial moves in the case of voter suppression and the potential robbery of democracy occurred in the battleground state of Ohio. Republican Secretary Of State Jon Husted’s (pictured) decision to change the rules just days before the election was “a flagrant violation of a state elections law,” wrote U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley on Tuesday.

On November 2, Husted issued a directive to local election officials to reject certain provisional ballots from voters who didn’t follow explicit instructions of identification on the ballot application.

Judge Marbley ruled that Husted violated a state law that instructs poll workers to fill out the ballot application; the directive would have put the onus on the voter to fill out the form. Husted also violated a federal court agreement that would protect provisional ballots from rejection due to poll worker error.

Husted plans to file an appeal, saying via a spokesperson to the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the ruling “allows potentially fraudulent votes to be counted. By eliminating the ID requirement on provisional ballots, the ruling is contrary to Ohio law and undermines the integrity of the election.”

SEIU and its partners from civil rights group Advancement Project filed the case against Husted, resulting in the scorching 17-page ruling written by Judge Marbley. Advancement Project Co-Director Penda D. Hair issued a brief statement regarding the Ohio matter.

“We agree with Judge Marbley in his view that the 11th-hour actions of Ohio’s Secretary of State were harmful to Ohio voters,” said Hair. “Measures must be taken to reduce the number of provisional ballots. And clearly, provisional ballots must be counted in this and future elections, so that Ohio citizens are not continuously subject to violations of their fundamental voting rights.”

Stunned by the trouncing of Mitt Romney in last week’s election by President Barack Obama, Republicans and other right-leaning groups are scrambling for ways to advance conservative ideals in the face of defeat. The lack of connection to active young voters and a haughty sense of entitlement have made opponents of Obama and other liberals appear to be nothing more than childish brutes. Although many Republican Party leaders have expressed a willingness to cooperate with the returning administration, a startling number of so-called “neo-secessionists” have banded together in a multi-state effort to secede from the United States. So far, the massive state of Texas has drawn the most attention among the 26 states involved in this growing dubious movement.

Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, appeared on FOX News’s “Sean Hannity Show” Tuesday night making the case for secession. Miller aligned himself and those of his group with the conservative values many Obama detractors hoped would be ushered in with a Mitt Romney win.

On Fox News, Miller said:

I think we’re faced with the reality that the Union has fundamentally changed.

We’ve got a federal government that treats states like Texas as a cash cow. It has no regard to the sovereignty of the states; it really treats us merely like an administrative subdivision of the whims of the federal government. We have seen, indeed, the fundamental transformation of what the Union is.

When Hannity probed Miller on the actual reason Texas wants to secede, Miller offered a dizzying answer that suggested that Obama supporters are Marxists:

The fact of the matter is, that there cannot be a union between those that esteem the principles of Karl Marx over the principles of Thomas Jefferson. Here in Texas, we esteem those principles of Thomas Jefferson — that all political power’s inherent in the people. What we have seen given on Tuesday was that a majority of the people in the United States, and the states in which they reside, esteem the principles of Karl Marx over those principles.

Huh?

Whatever.

Not surprisingly, the Texas Nationalist Movement’s efforts have yielded the desired results, gathering more than 80,000 signatures in a petition to the White House asking to become its own independent government.

Watch news coverage of the Texas petition at 60,000 signatures:

By law, only 25,000 signatures are required to get a response. However, Texas Governor Rick Perry chimed in via a statement on Tuesday, saying that while he doesn’t support secession, he does share the “frustrations” of Miller and others.

Conservative pundits and radio hosts have done their usual xenophobia-fueled rants and aimless bellyaching about the state of the country. And no matter which way they want to look at it, their man didn’t make it despite poll numbers that predicted a narrower race than the one that actually transpired.

With Republican Party leaders using the economy and drumming up often false notions about Obama, voters swung the other way because it was an obvious ploy. The secessionist movement, by most accounts, is overwhelmingly dominated by Whites who are unhappy with the changing demographics in this country (Read: growing number of empowered minorities who are involved in their democracy).

The movement began taking shape in 2003, partly in response to the irresponsible moves made by the Bush Administration during the early 2000s.

Political independence has been the rallying cry of secessionists, but this current crop appears to have a visible disdain for President Obama simply because he’s not the “right” skin tone.

While most secessionists aren’t as openly racist or combative as other conservative extremists, such as the Tea Party, their current “righteous indignation” smacks of racism and bigotry.

Since the historic re-election of President Barack Obama, in which Obama received 332 electoral votes to Romney’s 206, the First Family has received an outpouring of love and support from supporters across the nation. But not everyone is happy the President will remain our commander-in-chief.

One of the more controversial comments came from 22-year-old Denise Helms. NBCNews.com reports Helms was fired from Cold Stone Creamery, after calling the president the N-Word on her Facebook page. The Turlock, Calif., native, who was a manager at the ice cream chain, went on to add, “Maybe he’ll get assassinated this term!”

In a follow-up interview, Helms showed little remorse for her racial comments:

“I didn’t think it would be that big of a deal,” she said. “The assassination part is kind of harsh. I’m not saying like I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don’t think I’d care one bit.”

Watch Helms disturbing comments here:

While hate speech unfortunately isn’t a surprise, the surplus of derogatory comments in the President’s second term is alarming. According to Floatingsheep.com, which mapped racist tweets since Obama’s re-election, Alabama and Mississippi had the highest rate of hate speech since Nov. 6. Other southern states with high-racist comments included Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

Young people have also joined in on the racist commentary, which was highlighted in a recent story by Jezebel‘s Tracie Egan Morrissey.

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While we at NewsOne couldn’t be happier Barack Obama will continue to be president, it does sadden us to know such negativity is still so prevalent. However, we do share these sentiments:

Calling the president a nigger don't change the fact that he got these votes and snatched wigs for a second time. Stay mad.

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Speaking with Wisconsin CBS affiliate WISC-TV about the election, Ryan admitted that he was “surprised” by the President’s decisive win last week, “We were surprised at the outcome. We knew this was gonna be a close race. We thought we had a very good chance of winning it. I’m very fortunate to have had this experience, but losing never feels good.”

When broached about what “surprised” him, though, Ryan responded:

“The surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the big margin to win this race. When we watched Virginia and Ohio coming in, and those ones coming in as tight as they were, and looking like we were going to lose them, that’s when it became clear we weren’t going to win.”

While one has to wonder why anyone is interested in hearing what Ryan thinks about anything at this point, Ryan’s inability or straight-out refusal to acknowledge the entire picture may be one of the very reasons he is still sitting in Wisconsin today.

By saying that he is “surprised” that urban areas (read: Black and Latino) voted, he implies that the GOP ticket somehow thought that “minorities” wouldn’t show up on Election Day. Maybe that’s because Republicans, who seemed to be nursing on a healthful diet of FOX News throughout the campaign, allowed themselves to believe that a so-called “enthusiasm gap” would keep Blacks, in particular, home.

But obviously, that wouldn’t be the only falsehood they would digest throughout the election. Republicans also allowed themselves to believe that the only people worth campaigning to were old White males. Whether it was Todd Akin foolish assertion that women’s bodies can prevent pregnancy from “legitimate rape,” Romney’s claim that he would build a 2,000-mile fence to keep out illegalsor his other claim that students “should borrow money from their parents” for college, Republicans managed to insult a number of groups and classes across the country.

And while Romney attempted to move to the center in the final stages of his presidential campaign, the majority of Americans weren’t fooled.

As NewsOne reported earlier, minorities more than showed up on Election Day — and we weren’t alone. Young White voters, Latinos, and women showed up too.

Total minority votes increased to 28 percent. Our coalition turned out in massive numbers with massive support, women made up about the same portion of the electorate as in 2008. And our support remains strong. We’ve got 55 percent of women voters. Youth actually increased as a percentage of the electorate. So for lots of reporting about youth, they turned out again and continue to take control of their future. We won them again at historic margins over 3 to 2.

So you see, while it may make Ryan sleep better at night to tell himself that the “urban” among us are the only reason Obama is President, the stats tell a more comprehensive story.

His failure at seeing the larger picture corresponds directly to his campaign’s failure to win both the electoral and popular vote. But hey, just because you refute the facts, doesn’t mean that your fantasy will one day become reality.

Now that the dust has settled, the euphoria or shock cooled, one thing stands out about the re-election of President Barack Obama. History was made once again. Yes, it was the first time a Black man was re-elected to a second term in office, it was the first time that a sitting president was re-elected when economic growth was sluggish and unemployment numbers high, but it was also the first time when a coalition of minorities cast the deciding vote.

According to one analysis in Time Magazine, ‘The Nov. 6 election signaled a demographic tipping point: A record number of Latino and Asian voters, the country’s fastest-growing voting bloc, formed a coalition with Black and white Democratic voters to re-elect the country’s first African-American President. A new American majority – a multiethnic majority – has not only arrived but is infact reordering the political landscape.’

The power of this new minority majority or multiethnic majority played out in several key states. In Ohio where African Americans make up 12% of the Ohio population they gave President Obama the leading edge by turning out in greater numbers than in 2008 growing from 11% to 15% of voters. In Virginia, a state that not too long ago exemplified the Jim Crow South, exit polls showed that Obama won 93% of black voters, 65% of Latino voters and 66% of Asian voters. While Obama’s support among white Virginians was only 38%.

Mr. Obama’s victories in Colorado, Nevada and Virginia came in part because Hispanics turned out in droves and voted Democratic. In Colorado, 14 percent of the voters were Hispanic, and Mr. Obama won three-fourths of them. In Florida, Hispanic voters were almost one-fifth of the electorate, and Mr. Obama won about three-fifths of them.

The rise of the minority majority has been happening for some time, but the power of its impact has been particularly felt in the last two elections. “We are a much more diverse country than we were just a generation or two ago”, said Paul Taylor, who oversees the Pew Social and Demographic Trends project and the Pew Hispanic Center.

The Minority Majority is the new America and they are the New Deciders.

Although pundits, news outlets, and just about everyone else said that Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney was in a narrow battle with President Barack Obama ahead of last Tuesday’s election, the numbers went in favor of the incumbent and gave the cocky former governor a sound defeat. With the GOP smarting from the loss, the Internet has been unforgiving in its taunts and jokes since Election Day. A new site, however, just may have topped them all in detailing in real time how many fans Romney has lost on his Facebook fan page, reports social media site Mashable.

The site DisappearingRomney.com has charts showing a real time count for Mitt Romney’s popular Facebook page, which boasts just more than 12 million fans who’ve liked the page.

Since the Republican lost the presidential election, though, Mashable writes that Romney’s page has lost roughly 850 users per hour.

Where are Romney’s fans going? Gawker writes that former Romney supporters could be flocking over to the Obama fan page because the President continues to gain fans, rubbing salt in the already open wound suffered by the Romney/Ryan campaign team.